Cloudflare
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
$194K–$266K
Hybrid +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 2, 2026
- Location
- Hybrid
San Francisco, CA, United States - Experience
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Any offer may be conditioned on authorization to receive software or technology controlled under U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.
About the job
Embedded with a strategic customer’s engineering team, the Senior Forward Deployed Engineer builds and deploys production solutions on Cloudflare’s platform and feeds customer insights into product development.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and deploy production code and configurations in customer infrastructure using Cloudflare services.
- Lead the account’s technical strategy and success, partnering with customer engineers and participating in their engineering rituals and incident response.
- Identify product gaps and adoption opportunities, sharing customer feedback with Cloudflare Product and Engineering teams.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Experience with modern languages such as TypeScript, Rust, or Golang.
- Experience owning mission-critical services, including on-call and incident response.
- Deep experience with at least one major cloud provider: AWS, GCP, or Azure.
Nice to have
- Experience building on Cloudflare Workers or the broader Cloudflare Developer Platform.
- Experience at a fast-paced startup or in a customer-facing engineering role embedded in a partner’s codebase.
Pay
$194,000 - $266,000 USD base salary (estimated annual salary for Bay Area based hires)
Tools
TypeScript, Rust, Golang, Cloudflare Workers, AWS, GCP, Azure, Windsurf
AI focus
Integrate AI-augmented workflows into daily development to accelerate prototyping and delivery.
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